ThreeStrikesandOut

Last night Wladimir (don’t call me Drago) Klitschko defeated Sultan (who) Ibragimov in a unanimous decision to unify the WBO, IBF, and IBO titles.

IDGAF.

And apparently neither did some of the fans in attendance, who were witness to a boxing match that would make even the most diehard boxheads admit that the sport is on life support.  According to The New York Times:

Klitschko, nonetheless, landed punches when he had to and won by unanimous decision in a fight that had fans booingbecause of the lack of action. The judges scored the fight for Klitschko, 119-110, 117-111 and 118-110.

The fans were booing because it was boring.  Mind you, this fight took place in Madison Square Garden, a place where the New York Knicks play their home games.  These people know crap when they see it.  And according to Fox Sports, the corner for Klitschko implored him to do something to get the crowd into the fight:

“You have to knock him out, or this is going to be bad,” Emanuel Steward pleaded with Klitschko in an exchange picked up by HBO’s microphones before the final round of his fight with Sultan Ibragimov.

I’m not going to get behind two fighters who I have to have phonics lessons to pronounce their names, so now that my own personal bias is out of the way; let me say that if this is the best that boxing can give me, it’s never going to get me or my millions of fans back.  K could have hit I with a shovel in the final round and it wouldn’t have saved this abortion of a fight.

Boxing purists are pissed about Mayweather being in bed with WWE but at least he’s trying to get his face out in the media; hell, boxing gains more from an association with WWE at this point that WWE does with boxing.  Boxing is now listed in that dreaded category of “other sports” along with rugby, lacrosse, and curling and it has  no one to blame but itself.